The Best Summer Dresses from Fashion Week

Fri, Oct 3

After countless seasons of designers focusing on separates (the culotte, the crop top, the skirt …) it looks like the spotlight is turning back to that summer wardrobe fail-safe: The dress. SS15 collections were ripe with super-feminine frocks that were obviously made with sunny days and balmy nights in mind.

From Chanel’s petal-adorned party frocks to Louis Vuitton’s angelic anglaise shifts to Stella McCartney’s diaphanous sundresses, there were a myriad of variations on the same theme: sheer, floral, appliqued, pastel or a mixture of all of the above.

Paris in particular turned on the pretty-power, but Roberto Cavalli, Alberta Ferretti, Burberry and Peter Pilotto proved the trend had legs in Milan, London and New York.